Visit Romania!

[ciprianrusu]

A facebook page with a lot of great pictures from Romania.
http://www.facebook.com/discover.romania?sk=photos

[Basileos Leandros I]

Retezat Mountains.



Visit Romania!

[Basileos Leandros I]

Transfagarasan Highway

[michailangelo]

Do they speak english in Romania? A friend of mine just visit Costanta and left with the worst impressions.

He told me:
1)Very few people speak english and even those few don't speak them well. He went to Costanta by car from Athens and when asking for directions the locals just stare at him and couldn't help him. Same situation in the stores he went.

2)All the signs in the roads were only in romanian. There were no english signs. How come being a member of the EU?

3)He stayed at a luxury hotel in Costanta and the food there was tasteless. Even in the hotel they barely speak english.

4)On the way back home in the borders between Romania and Bulgaria a Romanian cop didn't give him his papers back unless he payed him 50 euro! My friend was forced to give him the money to have his papers back. WTF?

I would like to visit the country because of the beautiful landscape but now I'm giving it a second thought.

[Basileos Leandros I]

Do they speak english in Romania? A friend of mine just visit Costanta and left with the worst impressions.

He told me:
1)Very few people speak english and even those few don't speak them well. He went to Costanta by car from Athens and when asking for directions the locals just stare at him and couldn't help him. Same situation in the stores he went.

2)All the signs in the roads were only in romanian. There were no english signs. How come being a member of the EU?

3)He stayed at a luxury hotel in Costanta and the food there was tasteless. Even in the hotel they barely speak english.

4)On the way back home in the borders between Romania and Bulgaria a Romanian cop didn't give him his papers back unless he payed him 50 euro! My friend was forced to give him the money to have his papers back. WTF?

I would like to visit the country because of the beautiful landscape but now I'm giving it a second thought.

Of course we do. I went to Constanta a month ago for a full weekend, it was an enjoyable experience.

1) Not everyone speaks English, so that's quite bad luck to stumble upon those who did not know.

2) There's no need for them to be in English, it won't make much of a difference when it comes to the place names. Constanta in English will still be Constanta.

3) That's quite a weird aspect. Luxury hotels in Romania have trained staff who speak proper English.

4) Unfortunately, corruption is existent, like in every other country. I was stopped twice by the police, once going, once returning, and both times they were professional and gave me back the papers without a problem.

Nevertheless, I hope you'll visit and see for yourself. If you want tips on where to go, don't hesitate to ask.

[Basileos Leandros I]

Mamaia, Black Sea

(picture taken with a mobile phone by a friend of mine)

[NikeBG]

1)Very few people speak english and even those few don't speak them well. He went to Costanta by car from Athens and when asking for directions the locals just stare at him and couldn't help him. Same situation in the stores he went.

A little advice, purely by logic: Try to ask younger people, not older ones. When I was in Romania some 10 years ago, I also had a somewhat hard time communicating with people (thank goodness we had some English-speaking friends there anyway), but that's mostly because we spoke mostly with middle-to-older-generation people. While, somewhat similarly to my country, almost every young person today knows English (sometimes well enough, sometimes not so much), but the same can't always be said for their parents and grandparents.

[Adisor Norvegianu]

Hello, I am from Bistrita and more works by visting as Hotel Castel Dracula, and Bistrita was a saxon city named Bistritz: this city is famous for poet Andrei Muresan,

[Aru]

Bistrita was a saxon city named Bistritz[I]

It has very cute Slavic name.

[Basileos Leandros I]

Autumn shots Taken from http://www.facebook.com/273.ro


Maramures




Bilbor Mountains - http://regiuneabilbor.ro/

[Radzeer]

Great collection!
I have been there many times. I'll try to dig up some old pictures from the pre-digital era.

[florin87]

It has very cute Slavic name.

that's because it is slavic. the town is named after the lower part of the river bistrita/repedea.

[Armatus]

Romania is penned in as one of the many places I need to visit before I die.

[Adisor Norvegianu]

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[Copperknickers II]

4) Unfortunately, corruption is existent, like in every other country. I was stopped twice by the police, once going, once returning, and both times they were professional and gave me back the papers without a problem.

Corruption? That's the kind of thing you'd expect in Colombia or Russia, not in the EU. If someone did that in France or Britain there'd be a national scandal. Just how bad is this 'corruption'? Was it one unfortunate incident, or is it widespread?

[Adisor Norvegianu]

[QUOTE=Copperknickers II;10494089]Corruption? That's the kind of thing you'd expect in Colombia or Russia, not in the EU. If someone did that in France or Britain there'd be a national scandal. Just how bad is this 'corruption'? Was it one unfortunate incident, or is it widespread?, Corruption is very great in Romania.

[Basileos Leandros I]

Corruption? That's the kind of thing you'd expect in Colombia or Russia, not in the EU. If someone did that in France or Britain there'd be a national scandal. Just how bad is this 'corruption'? Was it one unfortunate incident, or is it widespread?

Corruption, IMHO, is not as widespread as it was 10 years ago when it was omnipresent. Nowadays serious efforts have been made to curb this but it still is somewhat widespread throughout the whole country.

[Armatus]

Do they have their own currency? or using the euro?

[florin87]

romania isn't in the euro zone yet (thank god). the national currency is the romanian leu. one euro is worth about 4,3 lei. while 1 dollar is about 3,1 lei.

[Basileos Leandros I]

Do they have their own currency? or using the euro?

As Florin87 said above me, we have our own currency called the Romanian Leu - RON.

Plans for Euro are definitely in place, some sources say perhaps 2015.